Sant’Ilario Pavilion

Sant’Ilario Pavilion project will be hosted in a small glass kiosk, a stone throw to TheView Studio space. The glass and steel architecture, built in 1961 along one of the narrow streets of Sant’Ilario, hosted for decades a Ligurian flower shop, plants and blossoms.

The small glass pavilion is today an empty and transparent humble cabinet through which is possible to glimpse and distinguish the sea horizon, the Ligurian landscape of Genoa suburbs and that one of the Riviera till Portofino.

The artworks produced by TheView and realized for the pavilion will inhabit the space temporary, trying to settle down naturally among the villas, the suburbs and the coast cypresses. The artwork, visible only temporary in the space for invited guests or passers-by, will be an object displayed in a shrine, so extraneous to the surrounding scenario, as affected by the atmospheres of the suburbs, of the landscape of the coastline.

Each piece produced at TheView Studio and installed in the pavilion will be the subject of a short film directed by an emerging film maker / artist chosen by TheView Studio following artists’ suggestions. The short film, a collaborative product realized by the artist, the director and TheView Studio, will be the main context where to see and distribute the image of the work after the temporary set up in the space and during the shooting phase. The short film will occupy that gray zone that exists, probably now more than ever, between practice of documentation and that one of presentation, between the artwork itself and its image digital distribution.

The project, conceived and directed by Vittorio Dapelo, started in 2015 and is curated by Francesco Garutti. The artists taking part to the project in 2015 are Peter Wächtler with a video by Hans-Christian Lotz; Ian law with a film by Zayne Armstrong; Haris Epaminonda; Davide Stucchi; Daniel Gustav Cramer.